I don’t know if it’s just a natural slowdown at the end of the year or what, but I just didn’t come across the usual volume of Simpsons related stuff this week. Fortunately, I quoted liberally from what I did find and gave this the appearance of substance rather than the substance of substance. Uh oh, maybe Zombie Simpsons is rubbing off on me. Anyway, there is some neat stuff this week, including stories about Groening, Simon, and some humorously erotic fan art.

Enjoy.

[Note: After I decided to use this image for the header I checked to see if I’d used it before. Turns out I used almost the exact same scene for the very short Reading Digest from the same time last year. Either I’m seasonally slacking off alone, or the rest of the internet is doing it with me.]

I Love the Simpsons – I usually roll my eyes when I read things about the show written by serious Christians. It’s almost always the same pabulum about how Flanders is a good role model and how the show is secretly really Christian because they go to church. This, on the other hand, has a much less blinkered view of the show, doesn’t view all criticism as blasphemy, and keeps a sense of humor. And, naturally, I agree with this:

I am speaking here of the early seasons of the show, lately it has sadly lapsed into a model more centered on garnering laughs than speaking to the important issues of the day.

As much as we hate to further perpetuate the “blogger” stereotype, last night’s episode of THE SIMPSONS leaves us with choice but to channel our own inner comic book guy as we type the words, “Worst. Episode. Ever.” Okay, not really. But as someone who has watched every single episode of the iconic animated series, not to mention, fully appreciates that at 22 seasons and counting, original ideas may be more than a little hard to come by, we do find ourselves scratching our head over last night’s episode. Which is to say, we wouldn’t have so much of an issue with last night’s poorly timed Goodfellas/Donni Brasco homage if it was the least bit funny.

Bart Simpson Grows Old and Dies, Over and Over Again – I’ve been told that this is cool, but I have no idea since, for technical reasons I won’t go into, Quicktime and my computer do not get along. (Who uses Quicktime these days? Isn’t everything on YouTube or Vimeo? Shit, HTML5 would’ve been fine.)

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Eh, I wish I could’ve fixed the tracking on that VHS tape, but the tape was a dubbed copy of a bad VHS that had been hocked around Comic book conventions in the late 90’s. It’s too bad this wasn’t on the Season 3,4, or 5 DVD sets as an extra. :(

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